Housing bargains, coupled with high demand from potential tenants looking to rent housing, and low interest rates that make purchase money cheap to get and keep first-time home buyers in the market for “flipped” homes are driving more investors into the real-estate market.

Moody’s Investors Service has affirmed the long-term Baa2 rating on bonds issued by Hampshire College in 2004 and the rating agency has changed its outlook on the college’s debt from negative to stable.

Google’s new Nexus 7 is aimed directly at the Kindle Fire, the 7-inch color tablet that was the runaway hit of the last holiday season. The Nexus 7 obliterates every reason for buying the current Kindle, and sets a high bar for whatever Amazon comes up with to replace it.

The Massachusetts law is designed to compel businesses with more than 11 workers to provide insurance for full-time employees. But because of the way the state combines part-timers to come up with a “full-time equivalent” worker, many retail, restaurant and temporary staffing firms find themselves in the cross-hairs of the state’s health care law.